Gone Like Dreams in BBC Prime

Today, July 4, the second part of In Search of the Brontës will be aired on BBC Prime as we informed previously. This is the summary of the second and last episode, Gone Like Dreams:

Based on the painstaking research of Bronte expert Juliette Barker, this insightful program shatters the myths surrounding the successful 19th century authors - Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte.
By 1844, the Brontes have lived through many trials and tribulations but they have no idea of the tragedy that is still to come. Charlotte, Emily and Anne retreat to Haworth parsonage following unsuccessful periods working as governesses.
Threatened by financial penury and encouraged by the determined and ambitious Charlotte, the three sisters turn their hand to writing novels. Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights cause a literary storm when they are eventually published. But this literary success is accomplished by a string of tragic events, which leaves the Bronte family desolate and broken.
Gone Like Dreams reveals how the sisters' brother, Branwell, is destroyed by a disastrous love affair and descends into depression and alcoholism; how critical censure of Emily's first novel, Wuthering Heights, possibly causes the destruction of the manuscript of her second novel, and how consumption ravages the family, leaving only the father, Reverend Patrick Bronte, in its wake.
In Search of the Brontes stars Victoria Hamilton as Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Hurran as Emily/Maria Bronte, Alexandra Milman as Anne Bronte, Patrick Malahide as Reverend Patrick Bronte and Jonathan McGuinness as Branwell Bronte.
Production Details
Narrated by Patricia Routledge. Producer/Director: Samira Osman. Executive Producer: Kim Thomas. A BBC/Opus Arte co-production.

If you are interested in the film adaptation of Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea (directed by John Duigan in 1993), you have a chance to see it today on IFC(Independent Film Channel):

Wide Sargasso Sea, July 4, 02:45 EDT; 06:00 EDT

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